Metlapilcoatlus olmec

Metlapilcoatlus olmec

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Viperoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Superphylum: Deuterostomia Phylum: Chordata Cladus: Olfactores Subphylum: Vertebrata Infraphylum: Gnathostomata Megaclassis: Osteichthyes Cladus: Sarcopterygii Cladus: Rhipidistia Cladus: Tetrapodomorpha Cladus: Eotetrapodiformes Cladus: Elpistostegalia Superclassis: Tetrapoda Cladus: Reptiliomorpha Cladus: Amniota Cladus: Sauropsida Classis: Reptilia Cladus: Eureptilia Cladus: Romeriida Cladus: Diapsida Cladus: Neodiapsida Cladus: Sauria Cladus: Lepidosauromorpha Subclassis: Lepidosauria Ordo: Squamata Subordo: Serpentes Cladus: Caenophidia Superfamilia: Viperoidea

Metlapilcoatlus olmec (Pérez-Higareda, Smith & Juliá-Zertuche, 1985)

Holotype: UNAM-LT 1300, ♀, collected by G. Pérez-Higareda in September 1981.
Type locality: “crest of Cerro Egega, 1100 m, Los Tuxtlas uplands, municipality of Catemaco, southern Veracruz, México”.

Porthidium olmec Pérez-Higareda, Smith & Julia-Zertuche, 1985: 97 [original combination]
Atropoides olmec — Werman, 1992 [subsequent combination]
Metlapilcoatlus olmec — Campbell, Frost & Castoe, 2019: 52 [subsequent combination]

Pérez-Higareda, G., Smith, H.M. & Juliá-Zertuche, J. 1985. A new jumping viper, Porthidium olmec, from southern Veracruz, Mexico (Serpentes: Viperidae). Bull. Maryland Herp. Soc. 21(3): 97-106.
Campbell, J.A., Frost, D.R. & Castoe, T.A. 2019. A new generic name for jumping pitvipers (Serpentes: Viperidae). Revista Latinoamericana de Herpetología 2(2): 52–53. PDF Reference page.

English: Olmecan Jumping Pitviper

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